61 And 63, New Cavendish Street W1

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER NEW CAVENDISH STREET, W1 45/57 (North Side) 10.9.54 Nos. 61 and 63 G.V. II* Pair of terraced 1st rate town houses. 1775-77 Portland Estate development by John Johnson, No. 61 fitted out for William Udny and No. 63 for Sir Charles Bampfylde. Stock brick; concealed slate roof. Generously proportioned astylar elevation treated as a single tripartite composition and axially closing the north vista of the Adam Brothers'mansfield Street q.v. 4 storeys (top floor as attic storey) and basements. 7 windows wide in all with centre 3 bays slightly advanced. Central composition of semicircular arched doorways flanking similarly arched windows, all recessed for one order with Coade stone vermiculated rustications, fluted impost bands, head keystones, panelled doors, side lights and patterned fanlights. Recessed renewed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches. 1st floor has continuous bracketed balcony with Victorian scrollwork iron balustrade and tent roofed verandah; 2nd floor windows with tent hoods added at same time as verandah. Main stucco cornice over 2nd floor and attic cornice with blocking course. Plumbed spike area railings, surviving urn finialed standard to right. Fine interiors rather in Wyatt manner; geometrical stone staircases with delicate wrought iron balustrades; plasterwork friezes and ceilings with inset painted panels, arabesque and "Etruscan" details; apse ended library and segmental vaulted and pendentive domed drawing room in No. 61; statuary marble chimneypieces; etc. Dictionary of British Architects; Howard Colvin.

Listing NGR: TQ2871481716